"adding the strict mode / quirks mode doctype switch. that trick isn't going to work again."
Actually, if they take it a step further and implement full XHTML and CSS support for XHTML served properly as "application/xml" then the may have something to work with, without breaking compatibility, period.
Seriously... so lets say google co-opts wikipedia and starts charging. What would stop some other like minded folk from setting up another wikipedia? And why would folk pay $20 a month for an encyclopedia, when the new (old) wiki is free?
from what I heard the new tactic will be to introduce new laws, specifically joining WIPO.
How those new laws will coexist with the levy is up for debate I guess...
IT coming from within the industry. Mysterious forces on the interent are not creating movies before they're released into theatres, they're getting them from industry sources.
Perhaps the industry needs to take a good look inwards at it's greedy underbelly before simply demanding consumers fall into line?
1. I get a big beige square in Firefox 1.0 on XP, interesting.
2. The US has somehow extended their interstate system into canada. Our highways all have the american symbols on them... is this part of an evil plot?
3. Similarly, it would be nice if measurements could be moved into the 21st century. Miles are so passe.
4. I'll be really impressed when I can get street directions to some place in fiji.:-)
5. This is VERY impressive... buh bye mapquest, hope none of you had stocks.
6. They should launch a directory service too...since my company still shows it's old locatino even though we moved in 2003.
(yes I know it's beta - just making verbal observations.)
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I wonder it gmail will ever make it past beta...
RTFA
"I never found any value in the school system so I never bothered to study... hence the main reason I'm unemployed."
You're blaming the "system" for your unemployment?
My friend, the buck (for everything in life) ultimately stops with the person in charge of that life.
Sure, there are externalties, but the only real variable is you.
we're coders, not artists. (Flex or no Flex)
And Flash is expensive to buy, IDE wise.
HTML, Javascript and XML can all be developed on whatever text editor you like.
You don't need to tell the user to "install the javascript run time environment."
User: "Install? What does that mean?"
DOM has nothing to do with windows, and is in fact a W3C spec.
If your browser can run javascript, it presumably is using a DOM, in one form or another.
Point taken though on interoperability though
Like the American version with bigger fields, less downs, and players slightly less talented.
how well do your sites work for folks using:
Screen readers?
Text based Browsers?
Blackberries?
WAP?
Exactly.
Switch to mac. :-)
no, you've got your analogy a little mixed up... you're asking th esame hypothetical question as the parent.
In this case, the auto maker is now giving away similar "replacement door locks".
IANAL, but I think that the makers of the third party locks would have a legitimate greivance here.
"adding the strict mode / quirks mode doctype switch. that trick isn't going to work again."
Actually, if they take it a step further and implement full XHTML and CSS support for XHTML served properly as "application/xml" then the may have something to work with, without breaking compatibility, period.
Whether or not they care is another matter.
I'm not sure what you're comparing to, but very few designers would say that the gimp is better than photoshop.
Same goes with open office.
Apache though, won't get a complaint from me.
a contract?
Seriously... so lets say google co-opts wikipedia and starts charging. What would stop some other like minded folk from setting up another wikipedia? And why would folk pay $20 a month for an encyclopedia, when the new (old) wiki is free?
I'm sure there's more to it that this...
from what I heard the new tactic will be to introduce new laws, specifically joining WIPO. How those new laws will coexist with the levy is up for debate I guess...
he would have been right on the money.
Is there an iPod coming out of Redmond?
I wouldn't bet on it.
Deja vu
Um, ignoring the obvious - physical analogies don't really scale to the non-physical - doesn't this happen pretty much every day?
Granted, very few give away their widgets, but many sell them for much less. It's call competition.
What would I do?
1. Re-evaluate my costing structure.
2. Explore added value solutions.
3. Focus on building a brand reputation and customer loyalty.
You know, the things businesses do every day.
Downloading in Canada is legal*... at least it is for music, so I would assume movies would fall under the same category.
* Well, it's not legal per say, but it isn't illegal either... it's sort of in some gray nether region at the moment.
Mr. Cheney is that you?
IT coming from within the industry. Mysterious forces on the interent are not creating movies before they're released into theatres, they're getting them from industry sources.
Perhaps the industry needs to take a good look inwards at it's greedy underbelly before simply demanding consumers fall into line?
not 1978... FWIW, apple already has one of the largest (size wise) mp3 players on the market... I highly doubt they'd want to make it bigger.
not to say they won't do it, but symantec and mcaffee are not netscape...
they're not done yet... this has a way to go.
1. I get a big beige square in Firefox 1.0 on XP, interesting.
:-)
2. The US has somehow extended their interstate system into canada. Our highways all have the american symbols on them... is this part of an evil plot?
3. Similarly, it would be nice if measurements could be moved into the 21st century. Miles are so passe.
4. I'll be really impressed when I can get street directions to some place in fiji.
5. This is VERY impressive... buh bye mapquest, hope none of you had stocks.
6. They should launch a directory service too...since my company still shows it's old locatino even though we moved in 2003.
(yes I know it's beta - just making verbal observations.)